Nothing puts a skip in your brisk autumnal step like the the announcement of the 2012 MacArthur 'genius' Fellows , which provides an inspiring and concise account of twenty-three veritably brilliant individuals working on daring and creative projects from filmmaking to neurobiology to instrument bow-making. In the excitement of the moment, I'd like to highlight one of this year's MacArthur Fellows, Olivier Guyon, an astronomer and optical physicist who has proposed a cool investment of some of his no-strings-attached MacArthur grant: crowdsourcing the planet hunt. Olivier Guyon-- Planet Hunter. Image courtesy of The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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